We walk with the information of
quasars and the discernment of protoplasm.
Each day we live and die, each day our tears run dry.
Information is the rubble, the clutter of our civil war.
Reality becomes disposable when fact and
fevered fiction are made coequals,
when the rampancy of lies massacres the truth.
Each day we live and die, each day our tears run dry.
Propaganda walls our gated communities, our guarded cells.
So many concoct frightful conspiracies from techno-witchcraft.
So many dehumanize and scapegoat from delusive threats.
Each day we live and die, each day our tears run dry.
So many are captive here to the craven complex of revenge.
So many swallow here, the mollifying Fentanyl
of a cruel and brutal state.
Clinging to the demagogue, no one is free.
Somewhere in the brownout, is there a beacon?
Somewhere in the nightmare, do we awaken?
Each day we live and die,
each day our tears run dry.
Categories:
mollifying, cry, death, fear, hate,
Form: Free verse
Blitheness bears itself boldly by day,
Surmounting the summit of separative sufferance.
Ridges and ranges below bow in adoring array,
Where homage is payed to the uprising utterance.
Blitheness bears itself blandly by night,
Mollifying the wounds of the worried and the wronged.
Rills and rivulets ripple rosy in sight,
Where brutality is isolated and humanity thronged.
Categories:
mollifying, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Heavenly September is marvelous in its beauty,
Unobtrusively stroking each trust is gratifying,
Relentless daylight sprinkles alluring lewd duty,
Exuberant sparkles of elation are truly mollifying,
As auld relics fade, raw ones are soft as kid's booty.
Written: September 17, 2022
Remember September Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich
Categories:
mollifying, analogy, appreciation, autumn, beauty,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Morey Mouse made merry,
Mollifying Mallory’s Mama,
Maybe mixing mammoth metaphors
Marvelously mystical, Marmaduke mimed
mingling, meshing, ‘mogrifying magical mites,
Measuring muskrats minding miniature minnows
Meddlesome merrymakers, Mr. Mumbsly mentioned, miffed.
Mesmerized minions made millions, merely making mincemeat.
Mediocre maybe, magnificent Mrs. Mumps meticulously mentioned.
Categories:
mollifying, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Wolf
Ravenous, Vicious
Hunting, Preying, Devouring
Edacity, Rapaciousness, Greediness, Hungriness
Appeasing, Mollifying, Placating
Meek, Gentle
Lamb
Categories:
mollifying, animal,
Form: Diamante
Magnificent marauders masquerading magically might mean
Messy mollusks masticate marbled marigolds momentarily.
Maybe.
Moreover, momentous mosquitoes might make marvelous mini-muffins mixing marmalade momentarily.
Meanwhile
Minnie made monthly memories merely medicating masses
Mediocre men mysteriously manufactured man-made missals
Might mean
Millionaires mystify magical muggles’ meager melodies making
Magnifying, mollifying mortifying mind-blowing majestic missives.
Moreover,
Mummies, mammograms, mushrooms, minks, musicians,
Models, maestros, minions, muskrats, merry men
May
Momentarily medicate marvelously magnificent marauders.
Meanwhile
Mary May memorize multiplication minimizing
Mark’s Mother’s marmalade mini-muffin memory.
M might make momentous mountain-mincing molehill.
Categories:
mollifying, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Am I feeling blue?
Am I mind-fingering past woes,
Quietly reflecting over coffee?
HELL NO!
What I’m feeling this morning is PAIN!
And it aint blue
This intense aggravation is shooting arrows,
Is fire red,
No sense of indigo,
But devil’s flame instead
Am I a grouch?
This I won’t deny
Wife says so,
Her hands on hips,
Punishing eyes
All I can reply is
OUCH!
Have I something mollifying to say
Something to soften the tirade,
Put an upward turn to my spouse’s lips,
Make a clever ending to this poem?
Nope!
All I can say is
Just leave me the hell alone!
Categories:
mollifying, pain,
Form: Free verse
First rain of spring.
Cold, driven
on a harsh northern wind.
Welcome.
Filling the dry,
gaping cracks in annealed soil.
Restoring the earth from an
unyielding, austere winter.
Essential, though coming as
a bold remnant of winter's
frigid will.
Awakening the raw and
callous earth.
Restoring freshness and life to
dormant winter air.
Mollifying the soils
for blade and seed.
Frigid and stinging,
yet still a harbinger.
Verdant spring's first birthing breath.
Slate-gray skies yield and clear.
Warm days will come.
Today, glacial rains signed a
new lease on life
for our northern plains.
Categories:
mollifying, change, rain, spring,
Form: Free verse
My love, as ointment poured out is your name.
as odors, sweet, and spices, rich and rare,
does its fair sound rejoice the waves of air.
The fragrance filled the house when Mary came
to kneel at Jesus' feet, her love aflame,
the alabaster box spilled out, her hair,
the towel with which she wiped away His care;
so now this room is scented by your name.
The Balm of Gilead alone excels
the mollifying virtue your name gives;
there is no thing about you which repels,
for what you are is all that to me lives;
and, He and you, intertwined, my gospel
are, which two my soul's salvation give.
Faye Lanham Gibson
Copyright, 1987
Categories:
mollifying, love, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
Treading along the avenues of iniquity
The downbeat of mollifying choruses alleviate my ears
Ambivalent logic scours my cerebellum
A frown composed of disdain surfaces
Whilst I seek a hero amongst such strange clouds
I covet to taste of the superlative pleasures ‘tis Mother Earth
Though I am left to contemplate when next my happenings
Categories:
mollifying, life,
Form: Verse
A contortionist achieves climax
Her ******** saluting her lips
From within an envelope of pleasure
Causing local beatitude
Though one may query such enthusiasm
Her ******** cooing mollifying concert
Waltzing against the hips of autumn temptation
That she was vibrant
Or that she was barren
Or that in artistry
This plausible microsecond
The happening of dawn quite imminent
And a canary perched upon a fence
Lavish us with falsettos
Each and every organism throughout the universe
Itself just below its conception
And love equalizes the balance
Categories:
mollifying, life, autumn, universe,
Form: Verse